My first contribution to the forum is this News Calendar. It requires update monthly which I hope I can post here in the forum and I will most likely post these Quarterly.
If you don’t know how to install an indicator or require practical assistance, please do not ask me as there is plenty of information on how to install indicators and I have very little time.
I am not sharing the code below as I highly suggest you INSTALL the calendar so that you do not miss on out the Calendar Settings page.
If you like the indicator, just hit thumbs up so I know people are using it. I made this for personal use primarily.
Good hunting!
ProrealTime News Indicator
2020-08-30
ESCapedTestSubject – Find me at ProRealCode forum.
Free to use “As is” – No guarantees. No warranties. No requests.
What is this:
A calendar indicator for ProrealTime based on version 10.3. The data is scraped via Excel and formatted to PRT code.
Future updates:
Will be released based on free time and interest from the community.
How to install up:
- Download and install the indicator. If you copy and paste you will miss out the settings options menu.
- Indicator name: NEWS-2008-09 means full month 08 (August) of 2020 and half the month of month 09 (September).
- Next indicator: NEWS-2009-10 will have a full month of month 09 (September) and half the month of month 10 (October) etc.
- You can install multiple news indicators beforehand and use NewsOn checkbox to disable / enable each of them as they are of interest.
- You may want to set FirstRow and ShownRows in each indicator as invisible if it causes problems.
- Consider UNLINKING the chart where you place the indicator so it doesn’t have to update every time you change security.
- Consider using a security that has 24 hour update and starts early on weekdays (EUR/USD) or DJIA or similar.
How to setup:
- Set the Timeframe to DAILY.
- Set the number of units to 6 (x) units. This will display best in a small narrow window.
- Change the ShowRows to compact or space out the number of shown rows and the distance between rows depending on the size of the window.
- Set your UTC time zone to your own region in the settings – this will change the time of the event accordingly.
- A +/- next to date tells you if the event occurs +1 or -1 from this date depending on your UTC zone.
Features:
- StartTodayOn checked will show the dates from today and forwards, or the timeframe you choose.
- Date entries StartDate and Endate filters specific dates if StarTodayOn is unchecked. Dateformat YYMMDD. Sorry imperialists – US & UK standards are no good in programming and conflicting even between systems.
- Filter settings based on News Impact level:
Impact0 – Holidays
Impact1 – Not used as there are far too many entries of little to no importance and for coding reasons.
Impact2 – For News Impact level 2
Impact2 – For News Impact level 3 - Filter news based on country / region by disabling or enbabling check-boxes. I have no plans to incorporate further regions at this time.
Disclaimer: Events and timestamps listed in this indicator are scraped off the internet. No guarantees that data is accurate.
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Incredible work! Thanks for sharing!
Amazing! Is it possible to have this as a function of PRT? A News section, like the Screener?
Great work!
Thank you Nicolas.
I’ve started a forum thread for future updates and I have posted improved versions of the calendar for the next coming 3 months as I can’t seem to add calendar updates here.
Just to highlight it, but if you have limited real estate space and you want to see what is happening a few days or rows into the future, then you can always PAN the calendar by clicking somewhere in the middle of it and move it upwards, just like a chart. That will display the rest of the month. Kind of like scrolling, but without a scrolling bar.
The link is:
https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/news-calendar-updates/
Yes thank you very much ESCapedTestSubject, it’s a comfort not neglected! 😀
Wish you a productive week
Maxime
Thank you! Wish you the same.
Amazing! Is it possible to have this as a function of PRT? A News section, like the Screener?
Great work!